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“Master, do they scream much?” asked Sören in a half
whisper.
“Well, they don’t often laugh.”
“Faugh, what an ugly business!”
“"Then there’s no use my counting on one of you for
help, I suppose.”
“Are you countin’ on us to help you?” asked Rasmus,
and rose angrily.
“I’m not counting on anything, but I’m looking for a
young man to help me and to take the business after me,
that’s what I’m looking for, as you might say.”
“And what wages might a man get for that?” asked Jens
Bottom, earnestly.
“Fifteen dollars per annum in ready money, one-third
of the clothing, and one mark out of every dollar earned
according to the fixed rate.”
“And what might that be?”
“The rate is this, that I get five dollars for whipping
at the post, seven dollars for whipping from town, four
dollars for turning out of the county, and the same for
branding with hot iron.”
“And for the bigger work?”
“Alack, that does not come so often, but it’s eight
dollars for cutting off a man’s head, that is with an axe: with
a sword it’s ten, but that may not occur once in seven
years. Hanging is fourteen rix-dollars, ten for the job itself
and four for taking the body down from the gallows.
Breaking on the wheel is seven dollars, that is for a whole body,
but I must find the stake and put it up too. And now, is
there anything more? Ay, crushing arms and legs according
to the new German fashion and breaking on the wheel,
that’s fourteen—that’s fourteen, and for quartering and
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